Anna Averkiou

Anna Averkiou

Anna Averkiou is an established consultant, journalist and trainer who draws on more than 30 years’ experience as a journalist to help organisations and individuals engage more effectively with the media. She started her career as a trainee reporter on local newspapers in North London, before specialising in world news and current affairs with various national and international news organisations including the BBC, C4, TV-am, CNN, ABC (America), MBC, Worldwide Television News (now APTN) and Visnews (now Reuters TV). During that time Anna covered some of the world’s biggest stories, and ran bureaux in Moscow, Sarajevo and Brussels. Since leaving the BBC in 2010, she has developed a particular interest in crisis communications and has worked around the world with private, public and Third sector clients. She regularly teaches, writes and speaks about journalism and media issues and was Media Advisor to the Panel of the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry into historic child abuse. Anna is a member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists, Institute of Directors and Chartered Institute of Marketing. She is also a school governor, a trustee/advisor to several charities, served on the London Executive Board of The Emergency Planning Society and is now Board Advisor on Media Engagement for The Security Institute.